- Report
The Senate Appropriations Committee convened a hearing at which Director Phillip Swagel testified about CBO’s appropriation request for fiscal year 2021. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
CBO discusses choices about revenues and spending that lawmakers face in addressing the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund as well as options for subsidizing state and local governments’ financing of highway projects.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on March 11, 2020
- Report
CBO estimates that real gross domestic product will contract by 11 percent in the second quarter of this year, which is equivalent to a decline of 38 percent at an annual rate, and that the number of people employed will be almost 26 million lower than the number in the fourth quarter of 2019.
- Cost Estimate
As passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2020
- Cost Estimate
As passed by the House of Representatives on January 9, 2020
- Presentation
Presentation by Bilal Habib, an analyst in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, to the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee.
- Report
CBO plans to adjust its usual report schedule to keep the Congress informed about the rapidly evolving economic and budgetary consequences of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
- Working Paper
Oil prices are one of the economic variables that underlie CBO's projections of the federal budget. This paper describes CBO's methods to forecast oil prices and evaluates the quality of the agency's historical forecasts.
- Report
This letter answers questions from Congresswoman Schakowsky related to federal funding for state and local governments.
